Rate My Professor Daniel Greenwood

Daniel J.H. Greenwood is a Professor of Law at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, a position he has held since 2007. Prior to joining Hofstra, he was the S.J. Quinney Professor of Law at the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law. Greenwood received his A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1979, conducted two years of graduate studies in political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1984, where he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, he clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Richard Owen in New York and worked in the litigation section of the New York office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.

Greenwood's scholarly work centers on the structure and rights of business organizations and other artificial and natural groups, the intersection between democratic theory and corporate law, and issues of group rights within individualist democracies. His research also addresses corporate law, corporate speech rights, the political role of corporations, and minority religious rights. He has published numerous articles in prominent law reviews, including "Fictional Shareholders: For Whom are Corporate Managers Trustees, Revisited" in the Southern California Law Review (1996), "Essential Speech: Why Corporate Speech Is Not Free" in the Iowa Law Review (1998), "Democracy and Delaware: The Mysterious Race to the Top/Bottom" in the Yale Law & Policy Review (2005), "Total Governance" in the Journal of Corporation Law (2025, with Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci), and "The Shareholder Democracy Lie" (2025). Additionally, Greenwood has contributed book chapters, such as "Utah's Constitution: Distinctively Undistinctive" (forthcoming 2006), encyclopedia entries, and book reviews. He authored a Supreme Court amicus brief in Randall v. Sorrell (2006) on behalf of ReclaimDemocracy.org. At Hofstra, he teaches courses in corporate finance, business organizations, torts, constitutional law II, commercial law, not-for-profit organizations, and advanced seminars on corporate law, Jewish law, groups and the law, and the Federalist Papers.